Our current global economy would make Dracula proud. Since 1800, the world's population has increased sevenfold. This staggering increase has come at the cost of absorbing ever more non-renewable, or fossil, resources from the earth. This exponential expansion comes from improvements in how we drain limited resources from the earth and is unsustainable. Due to economic sleight of hand related to externalities, the cost of using these limited and unsustainable resources is not correctly captured in market prices. Market prices do not reflect the investments that need to be made in renewable energy sources. The global economy is recklessly and recklessly taking irreplaceable resources from the environment, while at the same time subsidizing externalities related to the Earth's population and the environment. Ignoring this irreversible drain on the planet's limited resources through cost externalization is intergenerational betrayal in its deepest form. Over the past 150 years, per capita food production has steadily increased, allowing the population to grow and the urban population to expand. This move away from home-grown food allows people to specialize. Once a family no longer needs to worry about providing for its members, it is able to spend its energies on a wider range of activities. There are many benefits to a more specialized population, such as increased GDP per capita, industrial innovation, and lifespan. Civilization, in a word. However, this massive expansion comes at the cost of increased use of fossil (non-renewable) resources. In much of the Middle East, northern China, and the American Midwest, the huge increase in food productivity comes from overdrawing from aquifers that are beautiful......half the paper......with a price not indicated on the price tag. Air quality and CO2 emissions are externalities that have a huge impact on the environment and health. In the northwestern industrial city of Benxi, smoke from burning coal envelops the city, causing the country's highest rate of lung disease among residents and occasionally causing the city to disappear from satellite scans. If our global economy is to survive, externalities must be addressed. . It's all very well maximizing our current global production, but if that leads to a catastrophic disaster as resources run out, I can't enjoy the brief prosperity. The excessive and irresponsible use of limited resources is a kind of generational injustice that goes beyond the tragedy of genocide, as it will force a return to brutal, ugly and short lives if humanity survives this bloody practice..